Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

Christianity as World Religion, from Constantine the Great to Elizabeth I

Friday, November 1, 201312:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Rd. Barrytown, NY

When the Roman Empire changed its view of Christianity, from persecuting it as a *superstitio* to accepting that it was a *religio*, the Church acclaimed Constantine as an agent of God. He returned the favor by a steady increase of privileges for Catholics, until the Empire became a Christian preserve. Once the connection between Church and State was forged, however, it provoked a series of unintended consequences that included the Reformation. That process saw the emergence of a Protestant empire at odds with Catholic claimants to the mantle of Constantine.

The lecture series begins on Friday, October 4, and continues on thefollowing Fridays: October 11, 18, 25, and November 1. All lectures in the series are sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Theology and take place at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. Lunch is at noon consisting of soup, bread, dessert, coffee and tea at a cost of $6.00. The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.

Teaching the Sustainability Imperative in Any Class

A workshop for professors in EUS and beyond

Friday, November 1, 20131–5 pm

Here is a chance for EUS faculty and staff to work alongside local, regional, and national experts in higher education addressing sustainabilility.

Please join us, here on Bard Campus, Friday November 1st, from noon to five for a panel and workshop on sustainability in the classroom. The afternoon workshop will be lead by Dr. Pushpa Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna has been a leader in helping faculty from all disciplines learn to teach effectively about sustainability, helping drive widespread faculty engagement throughout her home institution, the Maricopa Community College system in Phoenix, one of the largest educational institutions in the country.

Noon-1 Panel: The workshop will be proceeded by a panel on sustainability and civic engagement, with Dr. Ramakrishna, and Bard's very own Sustainability Manager Laurie Husted and Dean of Civic Engagement Erin Canaan, and moderated by Bard CEP Director, Eban Goodstein. What are best practices for designing internships and practica that can help students become sustainability leaders? There is no charge for the workshop. To register, please e-mail Josephine French at jofrench@bard.edu.

The conference will be held in the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation at Bard College. Continental breakfast and lunch are complimentary and registration is free. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty are invited to give 20-minute talks.

Liberty League Men's & Women's Cross Country Championships

Come out and support Bard

Saturday, November 2, 201312 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer FieldThe 2013 Liberty League Men's & Women's Cross Country Championships are being hosted by Bard for the first time. Come out and cheer on the Raptors as they battle league rivals in a test of speed and endurance.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Conservatory Faculty/Student Chamber Concert

Sunday, November 3, 20133 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingConcert features Bard Conservatory faculty Laura Flax, Robert Martin, and members of So Percussion in collaboration with Conservatory students performing works by Mozart, Dvorak, Cage/Harrison, and Lukas Ligeti.

The Visitor Talks : Mary Anne Staniszewski

Monday, November 4, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1

Mary Anne Staniszewski will respond to the questions posed for the CCS Bard’s “The Visitor Talks” series Pre-ambulation and Retrospection by first addressing the recent adoption of curating within a broad range of cultural, media, disciplinary, and political contexts, and the expansion of research as a synonym for art and curatorial practices. She will link these developments to curation within the arts and an investigation of what she has called “the power of display,” which is intended to serve as a method for institutional critique. Staniszewski will then re-evaluate and update her research on the Museum of Modern Art in dialogue with her past and present projects, such as those dealing with the New York City cultural center, Exit Art (1982-2012), and the book she is completing, which is a contemporary-historical portrait of the United States that examines issues of slavery and race.

Mary Anne Staniszewski investigates culture and art in relation to political and social perspectives. Her books include: Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art (Penguin USA, 1995; Korean translation: Hyunsil Cultural Studies, Hyun Sil Moon Hwayonju, 2000 and 2007) and The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (MIT Press, 1998; Korean translation, designLocus, 2007).

Staniszewski has overseen a number of publications and projects related to the New York City cultural center, Exit Art, which closed in June 2012. She has co-edited with Lauren Rosati the exhibition catalogue, Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010 (Exit Art and MIT Press, 2012) and conceived the symposium, Contemporary Slavery (June, 11, 2011), which was organized in collaboration with Exit Art’s staff and produced in conjunction with Exit Art’s 2011 Contemporary Slavery exhibition. Staniszewski was the director of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator and was executive editor of the curatorial program’s catalogue, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, editors/curators, Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee (Exit Art and AK Press, 2010). She is overseeing the publication of a history of Exit Art in collaboration with Exit Art’s founding co-director, Papo Colo, Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art to be published by Stiedl.

Staniszewski is completing a contemporary-historical portrait of the United States, which examines issues of slavery and race. She has Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, and is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Elena Sisto Presents Her Work

Tuesday, November 5, 20135–7 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Building

Regarding the figures in her paintings Sisto notes that "the characters come out of the paint, the light, and the mood of the light... I observe people carefully; I stare at people on the subway more than I maybe should, and I draw from life. The characters may get too realistic and then too cartoon-ish. I try to find a balance between reality and imagination. I do not want to make a portrait, I want the sense of another consciousness."

Sisto (b. 1952) received a dual degree from Brown University and RISDE, and also studied at the NewYork Studio School. She has had nineteen one-person shows, and has received numerous grants, prizes and fellowships including two NEA grants, a Yaddo Fellowship and most recently, the 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, among many many other honors and awards. She is represented by Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York City

Visiting Artist Elena Sisto will give a presentation of her work on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 5 pm in the Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room.

National Climate Seminar: The Social Cost of Carbon Just Went Up

Wednesday, November 6, 201312 pm

Laurie Johnson, chief economist at NRDC's climate and clean energy program in D.C., joined us on the National Climate Seminar to talk about the SCC and her work on modeling the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Reading and/or Rereading Proust

A lecture by Antoine Compagnon

Wednesday, November 6, 20135 pm

Olin, Room 102Antoine Compagnon is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2006, he was elected professor at the prestigious Collège de France (Chair of French Modern & Contemporary Literature: History, Criticism and History). He studies literary representations in three main areas: Renaissance, late 19th and early 20th centuries, theory of literature and history of criticism. Among his many very influential books: Les Antimodernes (2005), Le démon de la théorie (2008), Les cinq paradoxes de la modernité (1990), Proust entre deux siècles (1989), La seconde main ou le travail de la citation (1979)

His latest books, a novel and an essay respectively entitled La classe de rhéto and Un été avec Montaigne, were published in 2012 and 2013.

Bard MAT: Meet the MAT Open House

Wednesday, November 6, 20136 pm

MAT BuildingFaculty and staff will be meeting with prospective students at the MAT building in Red Hook to talk about the Master of Arts in Teaching degree program! Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.

Wittgenstein's Exceptional Logic

Laurence GoldsteinUniversity of Kent UK

Wednesday, November 6, 20136:30 pm

Hegeman 102

Wittgenstein’s early writings on logic, though of great historical interest, are, for the most part, only of historical interest. He was not much of a formal logician (though he did bequeath us the truth-table method) and, in the philosophy of logic, though he made telling, sometimes devastating, criticisms of distinguished contemporaries, there is no theory of his that continues to animate modern debate in the way that (say) Frege’s theory of sense and reference or Russell’s theory of definite descriptions do. What I wish to argue here is that there is at least one theory proposed by Wittgenstein in the philosophy of logic that ought to be as highly regarded and influential as any contribution made to the field by Frege or Russell. The theory to which I refer concerns the nature of logical so-called propositions. It makes its first appearance in the 1913 Notes on Logic and is further elaborated in the Tractatus, where tautologies and contradictions are accorded a ‘unique status’ (T 6.112).

What Wittgenstein claims is that logical propositions are without content; they lack any truth-value and are not propositions (any more than rocking horses are real horses). In this paper, I shall say something about how Wittgenstein arrived at this claim and shall try to show that, contrary to first appearances, it is highly plausible. I’ll go on briefly to explore what a logic that makes exceptions of tautologies and contradictions (hence: an exceptional logic) looks like, and finally, I shall show how powerful this logico-philosophical apparatus is by demonstrating its capacity to solve some long-standing paradoxes.

Professor Laurence Goldstein (University of Kent, UK) spends most of his waking hours, and many of his dreams, thinking about paradoxes. He has published extensively on the subject and is currently writing a book, *The Liar, the Bald Man and the Hangman*. He is also a specialist on Wittgenstein about whom he has written a book, *Clear and Queer Thinking: The Development of Wittgenstein's Thought and its Relevance to Modern Philosophy* and also a play re-creating Wittgenstein's Ph.D. defense (he fails). He is the editor of a Monist volume on the philosophy of humor. Most recently, Laurence has edited a collection of essays called Brevity, so expect his presentation to be concise and to the point.

Wednesday, November 6, 20137–9 pm

Revisiting Gezi Protests and Authoritarianism in Turkey

Wednesday, November 6, 20137:15 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

Aslı Iğsız

Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University

The Gezi Park protests, and the state response to them, have ignited questions and debates on various issues such as the institutionalization of neoliberalism, centralization of powers, cronyism, an increasing tendency of authoritarianism, minority governmentality, and encroachment on professional independence and labor rights. This talk will address these dynamics with a special focus on the rise of authoritarian surveillance in the context of the high security neoliberal nation states in general, with Turkey as a particular instance.

Aslı Iğsız is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her teaching and research interests include cultural representation and cultural history, narratives of war and displacement, and dynamics of heterogeneity in late Ottoman and contemporary Turkish contexts. Her current book project, Humanism in Ruins: Habitus, Memory, and the 1923 Greek-Turkish Compulsory Religious Minority Exchange, explores the habitus of recollecting remnants of the ruins of modern nation states and dynamics of diversity in contemporary Turkey.

Bard Underground: A New Approach to Campus Architecture

With Adam Kalkin and Matthew Quilty

Thursday, November 7, 20136 pm

Olin, Room 205Architect Adam Kalkin and his business partner Matthew Quilty discuss their work designing and building sustainable architecture, including the new Alden Trust Digital Media Lab to be built at Bard in 2014. Their talk will discuss their methods, philosophy, previous projects, and reveal preliminary designs for the Digital Media Lab, which they have been developing together with Bard students, faculty, and staff.

This event is supported in part by a Bard Mellon-Supported Course Development Award.

Documentary: "The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom"

A Radio Documentary Listening Session and Panel Discussion

Thursday, November 7, 20137–9 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaAward-winning Hudson Valley journalist Trey Kay will present his new radio documentary The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom, which delves into the culture war battles over public school curriculum content that have ebbed and flowed in the Lone Star State for the past 50 years. “While there have been fights over just about every academic subject debates over history, evolution, God, and country generate the most heat," says Kay.

Following the presentation there will be a panel including Kay and Josh Hatala, graduate of the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program and a doctoral candidate in the History Department of the University at Albany, who for over ten years he has taught in both private and public high schools. The discussion will be moderated by Richard Aldous.

Kurt Andersen, cofounder of Spy Magazine and host of PRI’s Studio 360, calls Long Game “scrupulously reported and beautifully produced” and “a rigorous, fair-minded, and illuminating exploration of one of America’s fundamental challenges.”

Trey Kay is producer of The Great Textbook War, a radio report about the 1974 Kanawha textbook controversy, which was honored with Peabody, Murrow, and DuPont awards. Kay has contributed numerous reports to national programs, including This American Life, Marketplace, Morning Edition, American RadioWorks, and Studio 360. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.

Contemporary Fiction Series with Booker Prize Winner Eleanor Catton

Thursday, November 7, 20137:30–8:30 pm

Bard ChapelThis October, Eleanor Catton made history in two ways when she became, at 28, the youngest person to ever receive the Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries, which is also the longest book to receive the prize. The Luminaries is a sprawling masterpiece, marrying an experimental structure with an old-fashioned narrative, in a truly unique and idiosyncratic work of art. Catton will read from The Luminaries on this night.Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Written Arts Program.

Artists in Antarctica

Environmental artists Chris Kendall '82 and Elise Engler discuss their work on the cold continent

Friday, November 8, 201311:30 am – 12:30 pm

Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar RoomFriday, November 8, 2013 at 11:30 am Chris Kendall will discuss his photography work made while in Antarctica, and at 12:00 pm Elise Engler will discuss her artwork done while in Antarctica.

Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room

Everyone welcome!

*Co-sponsored by EUS and Studio Arts with support from a BardMellon-Supported Course Development Award.

Dancing with Horses

Friday, November 8, 201312–1 pm

Campus Center, George Ball LoungeChoreographer and maker of Equus Project, JoAnna Shaw, will talk and share some video of her work. She's been working with dancers, horses and performance for many years. Of special interest to those interested in site-specific performance, the relationship between animals and humans, or art and healing.For more information, call 914-522-6457, or e-mail jg7401@bard.edu.

Dance Program presents Moderation Dance Concert

Friday, November 8, 20137:30 pm

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Somedances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program. For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Dance Program presents Moderation Dance Concert

Saturday, November 9, 20137:30 pm

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program. For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

Dance Program presents Moderation Dance Concert

Sunday, November 10, 20132 pm

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Somedances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program. For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

An Evening of Spiritual Chant

An engaging and inspiring evening of chanting for people of all backgrounds

Sunday, November 10, 20137–8:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy InnocentsJoin us for an evening of spiritual chanting for people of all backgrounds. The chants will be taught and led by our guest, Cantor Meredith Greenberg. No experience necessary! Sponsored by the Chaplaincy.For more information, call 201-956-8228, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.

Dance Program presents Moderation Dance Concert

Sunday, November 10, 20137:30 pm

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Somedances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program. For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.

How has ‘1989’ Changed Writing?

A Reading and Discussion (in German & English) On the Aftermath of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Monday, November 11, 20137:30 pm

Bard Hall

With Distinguished German Writer Uwe Kolbe and Tenor Rufus Müller (reading the English voice)

His new novel “Indolence” is the most significant book of contemporary German literature reflecting on the aftermath of ‘1989’ and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Uwe Kolbe’s reading at Bard will be a world premiere. For his stirring book about a young man and emerging composer seeking to find his tone under the intricate conditions of dictatorship will come out only in spring of 2014. Kolbe will read from the German original, while distinguished tenor and Bard Music Professor Rufus Müller will read the English voice; the translation by acclaimed New York writer and translator Anne Posten was commissioned by the German publisher S. Fischer Verlag especially for this event.

Uwe Kolbe is an eminent poet, essayist, writer of prose, and translator. His first volume of poetry, “Hineingeboren,” (“Born Into”) appeared in East Berlin in 1980. The increasingly critical nature of his writing led to a ban on publication in the GDR soon after. During the early 1980s, he edited the illegal journal “Mikado.” Eventually, he was permitted to travel abroad and lived between Hamburg and East Berlin. Until 2003 he was Director of the "Studio Literatur und Theater" at the University of Tübingen. He was a writer-in-residence at the University of Austin and at Oberlin College. Uwe Kolbe is author of eleven books of poetry. His latest collection of essays, “Vineta’s Archives” (2012), was awarded with the prestigious Heinrich-Mann-Award by the Academy of Arts Berlin.

The English-German tenor Rufus Müller, Associate Professor of Music at Bard College, has had a distinguished career in opera, oratorio, and recital. He has performed and taught, and coached throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. He has worked under Franz Welser-Möst, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Ivan Fischer, René Jacobs, and other eminent conductors. CD recordings include performances in Bach’s St. John Passion under John Eliot Gardine, and Mozart’s The Magic Flute under Roger Norrington.

Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Music Program; Written Arts Program.

The Origins of Globalization: Explorers, Merchants and Missionaries

A Lecture Series by David Swanson

Tuesday, November 12, 20136:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102This lecture series introduces key issues that emerged during the original period of globalization, that is, the discovery, understanding, and organization of the geographic and human linkages binding the territories and peoples of our planet.

Lectures in this series take place on November 12, 13, and 19.

Lecture I: From the Unknown to the KnownDid a sustainable, mutually beneficial initiation of globalization begin with Alexander the Great, the Han, the Romans or with the Gulf merchants and the Pax Mongolica?

David Swanson has served as CEO of one of the world's largest commodities merchandising firms and as president of the Explorers Club, leading expeditions into Burma, Paraguay, and Tibet. He studied history at Harvard College and the University of Chicago.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program.

The Origins of Globalization: Explorers, Merchants and Missionaries

A Lecture Series by David Swanson

Wednesday, November 13, 20136:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102This lecture series introduces key issues that emerged during the original period of globalization, that is, the discovery, understanding, and organization of the geographic and human linkages binding the territories and peoples of our planet.

Lectures in this series take place on November 12, 13, and 19.

Lecture II: What Went Right and Wrong in the Age of DiscoveryThe Methods and patterns of globalization implemented by the Spanish are compared to the most sustainable and mutually beneficial expeditions and policies of the English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese.

David Swanson has served as CEO of one of the world's largest commodities merchandising firms and as president of the Explorers Club, leading expeditions into Burma, Paraguay, and Tibet. He studied history at Harvard College and the University of Chicago.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program.

Epistemology of the Lifeboat

Life of Pi and Queer Fabulation

Thursday, November 14, 20134:30 pm

Reem-Kayden CenterPresented by Tavia Nyong’o

Life of Pi (Yann Martel, 2001) is a widely acclaimed Canadian novel that purports to tell a story that will make the reader believe in God. Who could resist such a dare in a post-secular age like ours? This talk, however, does not focus on the spiritual propadeutics of the novel. Instead it takes up two matters Life of Pi attempts to push as far as possible to the margin: matters of race and matters of sexuality. How does this story — written by and told to a white man seeking Indian enlightenment — differ from its rightfully impugned colonial precursors? And why does a contemporary novel — written well after Stonewall and the long, dark reign of the closet — still repeat certain classically homophobic structures of disavowal and repudiation? And, finally, of what significance to the contemporary debates surrounding zoopolitics and queer posthumanism is the remarkable detail that these questions bob to the surface of the story about a teenager trapped at sea with a Bengal tiger?

Tavia Nyong’o is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. His areas of interest include black studies, queer studies, critical theory, popular music studies and cultural critique. His first book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Minnesota, 2009), won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance studies. Nyong’o has published articles on punk, disco, viral media, the African diaspora, film, and performance art in venues such as Radical History Review, Criticism, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Women Studies Quarterly, The Nation, and n+1. He is co-editor of the journal Social Text.

Effects of a Periodic Scatter Potential on the Landau Quantization and Ballistic Transport in Graphene

Thursday, November 14, 20134:30 pm

Graphene is a single atomic layer of carbon atoms bound in a hexagonal lattice. It was first produced experimentally in 2004 by a team of researchers from Manchester, UK, and Chernogolovka, Russia, through mechanical exfoliation. This event started the “graphene revolution,” which spread quickly around the world attracting the attention of scientists and engineers alike. Graphene’s discovery was awarded the Physics Nobel Prize in 2010 and the number of publications and patents related to it is still sharply increasing. This talk will give an overview of some of graphene’s surprising electrical and transport properties that arise due to its two-dimensional structure. Namely, graphene’s electrons, moving in the periodic lattice potential of the two-dimensional crystal, form energy bands. These band energies can be described by a wave equation in which the mass of electrons is effectively changed. In a strong magnetic field, the cyclotron orbits of electrons are quantized and Landau levels form. In 1976, Hofstadter showed that, for a two-dimensional electron system, the interplay between these two quantum effects can lead to a fractal-type energy spectrum known as “Hofstadter’s Butterfly.” The talk presents results that indicate that the Hofstadter Butterfly appears in graphene’s energy spectrum as well.

Theater and Performance Program presents Senior Project

Christina MirabilisBy Cameron Seglias '12

Thursday, November 14, 20137:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioFree and open to the public. No reservations required.

Directed and designed by Marie Schleef ‘13John Musall, lighting designer

This new mystery play, Christina Mirabilis, explores the account of the 12th century Flemish mystic Christine the Astonishing who was known for her divine miracles. The reading of this text is influenced by the German theater maker Einar Schleef (1944–2001) and his approach to theater.

Theater and Performance Program presents Senior Project

Christina MirabilisBy Cameron Seglias '12

Friday, November 15, 20137:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioFree and open to the public. No reservations required.

Directed and designed by Marie Schleef ‘13John Musall, lighting designer

This new mystery play, Christina Mirabilis, explores the account of the 12th century Flemish mystic Christine the Astonishing who was known for her divine miracles. The reading of this text is influenced by the German theater maker Einar Schleef (1944–2001) and his approach to theater.

Theater and Performance Program presents Senior Project

Christina MirabilisBy Cameron Seglias '12

Saturday, November 16, 20137:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioFree and open to the public. No reservations required.

Directed and designed by Marie Schleef ‘13John Musall, lighting designer

This new mystery play, Christina Mirabilis, explores the account of the 12th century Flemish mystic Christine the Astonishing who was known for her divine miracles. The reading of this text is influenced by the German theater maker Einar Schleef (1944–2001) and his approach to theater.

Contemporaneous Presents Breathe

Featuring a world premiere work by Albert Behar and music by Samuel Carl Adams and Dylan Mattingly '14

Saturday, November 16, 20138 pm

Olin HallFeatured composers Albert Behar (world premiere), Samuel Carl Adams and Dylan Mattingly work extensively in New York, but the cool fog of their common San Francisco Bay Area roots is evident in their music.

In his world premiere, the Contemporaneous-commissioned work Beauty in Breathing, Brooklyn-based composer Albert Behar (b. 1991; www.albertbehar.com) uses a device invented by his grandfather to amplify his heartbeats and measure his breathing, providing a live pulse for the piece and a feed for a video projection. The composer himself sings with the ensemble and vocalists Lucy Dhegrae, Margaret Dudley and Sean Christensen in this new exploration of the physical and mental sides of breathing.

Samuel Carl Adams (b. 1985; www.samuelcarladams.com) is quickly gaining renown as “a composer with a personal voice and keen imagination” (New York Times) who is deeply at home in several different genres. His work twenty four strings is rooted in the pure sadness of Renaissance music, a gorgeous string sextet that weaves its way through sounds like bells and waterfalls.

The show closes with Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island by Contemporaneous co-artistic director Dylan Mattingly (b. 1991; www.dylanmattingly.com). Scored for chamber orchestra complete with toy piano, harpsichord, and de-tuned harp, the piece is an emotional depiction of the final flight of Amelia Earhart that traces Earhart’s journey from optimistic beginning to the tragic end, concluding with a jubilant affirmation of her spirit.For more information, call 205-914-0663, e-mail info@contemporaneous.org, or visit http://contemporaneous.org.

Learn Capoeira this Sunday!

Bard beginner workshop with professional instructors.

Sunday, November 17, 201312–2 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Aerobics StudioTHIS SUNDAY (NOV 17TH) there is a Capoeira workshop at 12 (noon) in the aerobics rooms of Stevenson Gym. Instructor Sabia' will once again bring his Capoeira Luanda school to teach beginners how to "play" the sport.

All levels are welcome, especially complete beginners, as Sabia' has a wonderful ability to convey the movements quickly. Hope you can join us and, please, BRING FRIENDS!

Capoeira is an African-Brazilian martial art that incorporates acrobatics, dance, music, and songs in a rhythmic dialogue of body, mind, and spirit. It is a communal game in which two opponents play each other inside the roda (a circle), formed by the other players who create rhythm for the game by clapping, singing and playing the berimbaus (African traditional instruments, considered the soul of Capoeira) and other key instruments. The two opponents compete with each other using capoeira movements, camouflaging the self defense kicks and moves with playful acrobatics and dance-like moves spontaneously creating strategy to fool their partner and catch them off guard.

On Translation and Poetic Identity in the Age of Identity Politics

With Ammiel Alcalay and Benjamin Hollander

Monday, November 18, 201311:30 am – 1:30 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115

Please note time change.

Ammiel Alcalay and Benjamin Hollander will address how translation as act and idea has shaped their practices and poetic identities.

Hollander, who grew up between German and Hebrew before coming to the English he now writes in, will speak to how this linguistic and cultural journey has been translated into the un-Americanness of his American language and philosophy. His new book, In The House Un-American (Clockroot Books), is partly guided by the metaphor of translation as transport, as the perpetual crossing and metamorphosis of an immigrant’s language, identity, and culture. David Shapiro has called it “so America, so like an inner emigration, as if we had all changed names.” Hollander will address how the foreignness of his writing can inform the singularity of poetic thinking: how, in terms of syntax and fluency and perception, he wants, as the poet and translator Murat Nemet-Nejat writes, “to help English [and American identity] grow a limb it does not have.”

Alcalay has been publishing translations from a number of languages for over thirty years, and will speak to how these experiences inform poetic thinking and knowledge. As an advocate of writing from various parts of the world—particularly the Middle East and the Balkans—he has been instrumental in forging a space for engaged political encounters with other cultures and languages. He will address how his immersion in projects, centered in and on other regions and languages, have evolved into comprehending the context of how one uses American English and what that might mean for a reconfiguration of post Second World War American culture, as well as what that might mean for exploring new approaches to North American political, cultural, and literary history and identity. Taking, on the one hand, Meso-American scholar Gordon Brotherston’s crucial idea that “the prime function of classical texts is to construct political space and anchor historical continuity,” and poet Charles Olson’s idea that the history of these States remains “unrelieved” as starting points, Alcalay will address how his experiences as a translator and writer have taken him into realms that have little to do with the prevailing discourse in which literary translation has become embedded.

Faculty, for pdf files of the texts Alcalay and Hollander will be drawing on in their morning/afternoon practicum, please contact Cole Heinowitz.

Please also join our guests in Olin 115, 7-9pm for Special Views of History: Benjamin Hollander and Ammiel Alcalay read from their work.

Special Views of History

Benjamin Hollander and Ammiel Alcalay read from their work

Monday, November 18, 20137–9 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115

Continuing from their afternoon practicum, and in the spirit of Charles Olson’s Special View of History, Hollander and Alcalay will read from their poetry and prose. Their reading will play off Hericalitus’s maxim which begins Olson’s Special View: “Man is estranged from that which is closest to him.”

For Alcalay, this means tracing event to memory to create another kind of consciousness in the present, a third eye on a distant landscape coming into zoom focus, or, like Jack Spicer’s poet as radio, radiating poems as messages coming in at different frequencies, frequenting multiple dimensions: writing which, in Robert Duncan’s view, works toward immediacy as it seeks after origins.

For Hollander, this means a writing which reshapes and brings to focus our historical Imagination, where facts on the ground can be transformed into fables in the air: writing which aspires to conditions articulated by the biographer and translator Robert Payne, that “America was [and could be again] fable before it became fact.

Please also join our guests in Olin 115, 11:30am-1:30pm (note time change) for our practicum, Ammiel Alcalay and Benjamin Hollander: on Translation and Poetic Identity in the Age of Identity Politics

Psoy Korlenko is an internationally known Russian bard, singer-songwriter, scholar, journalist, essay-writer and musician, ex-artist in residence at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). On stage since 1997, Psoy created a unique multilingual cabaret, combining traditions of Russian and European folk song, Yiddish folk and theater song, with elements of rap and free style poetry. He has released a book of lyrics and essays and more than 10 CDs, some of them in collaboration with other artists. Experimenting with a wide variety of singing traditions, Psoy performs in about six or seven languages, most frequently in Russian, Yiddish, English and French.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Jewish Studies Program; Russian Student Club & Office of Student Activities; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

AMC 8 Math Contest

Tuesday, November 19, 20134–6 pm

Reem-Kayden CenterThe Bard Math Circle will host the AMC 8 Math Contest for the second year. The AMC 8, first offered in 1985, is an annual contest in middle school mathematics sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America. In 2012, more than 150,000 students from 2,300 schools participated in the AMC 8 contest, including 49 students at Bard College from around the Mid-Hudson Valley. The AMC 8 program at Bard will include an inspirational talk by Bard mathematics professor Sam Hsiao, and a panel discussion for parents entitled "Supporting Your Child as a High Achiever in Math and Science."

Note: The location of Sam Hsiao's talk has been moved to the Olin Language Center, room 115. The rest of the AMC 8 program will remain in the RKC.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

"The Movement Beyond Marriage Equality" Gabriel Blau: Executive Director of the Family Equality Council

Tuesday, November 19, 20136–7:30 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomGabriel Blau, who graduated from Bard in 2002, now serves as the executive director of the Family Equality Council. Join us as he speaks about his journey as an LGBT activist, which started at Bard College.Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Religion Program; Student Activities.

Gordon Matta-Clark and 112 Greene Street

A Talk with Jessamyn Fiore

Tuesday, November 19, 20136–7:30 pm

Olin, Room 201112 Greene Street was one of New York’s first alternative, artist-run venues. Started in October 1970 by Jeffrey Lew, Gordon Matta-Clark and Alan Saret, among others, the building became a focal point for a young generation of artists seeking a substitute to New York’s established gallery circuit. In the spirit of the 1970s desire for experimentation, the space was open to artists from all disciplines and did not impose censorship over their shows. As such, the building provided the setting for a rare, singular moment of artistic ingenuity, invention, and freedom that was at its peak between 1970 and 1974.

For Matta-Clark, the venue became a creative laboratory in which he, among other projects, dug out the basement to create a “guerrilla” garden; recycled glass bottles; papered the walls; offered channels for fresh air; turned a dumpster into an open house; and collaborated on a critique of the role of art, architecture, and language in capitalist society with the Anarchitecture Group who met weekly at the space. Due to its many performance-based projects, the space quickly earned recognition as a leading forum for live art, and staged some of the earliest performances by Trisha Brown, The Philip Glass Ensemble, and Mabou Mines. Other signiﬁcant artists who frequently presented their work at the venue included Vito Acconci, Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Larry Miller, Richard Nonas, and Alan Saret.___

Jessamyn Fiore is a writer, curator and co-director of the Gordon Matta-Clark Estate. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY, in 2002, Fiore moved to Ireland where she ran her own theatre company for three years. In 2007 Jessamyn became the director of Thisisnotashop, an independent art gallery dedicated to supporting emerging artists based in Dublin, Ireland. She received a Masters in contemporary art theory, practice, and philosophy from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2009. In 2010 she moved back to New York City where she has curated a number of exhibitions, including the group show 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970-1974) at David Zwirner Gallery in 2011. In 2012, she edited the accompanying publication 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974) published by David Zwirner and Radius Books.

The Origins of Globalization: Explorers, Merchants and Missionaries

A Lecture Series by David Swanson

Tuesday, November 19, 20136:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102This lecture series introduces key issues that emerged during the original period of globalization, that is, the discovery, understanding, and organization of the geographic and human linkages binding the territories and peoples of our planet.

Lectures in this series take place on November 12, 13, and 19.

Lecture Ill: Testing the LimitsIn the most recent phase of globalization, previous structures of colonialism are rejected, and new efforts are made to test the limits of the Earth's geography, both at the peaks of the Himalaya and the depths of the oceans' trenches, inspired and complemented by the 20th century's surge in scientific exploration.

David Swanson has served as CEO of one of the world's largest commodities merchandising firms and as president of the Explorers Club, leading expeditions into Burma, Paraguay, and Tibet. He studied history at Harvard College and the University of Chicago.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program.

Wednesday, November 20, 20137–9 pm

National Climate Seminar: Latino Climate Leadership

Jorge Madrid, Tom Graff fellow at Environmental Defense Fund and member of the Board of Directors of Voces Verdes

Wednesday, November 20, 201312 pm

Check out this conversation with Jorge Madrid who talked about Latino leadership on climate change. Jorge is a Tom Graff fellow at EDF and a member of the Board of Directors of Voces Verdes (Green Voices), an organization for the voice of Latino leaders for the environment.

Wednesday, November 20, 201312:30 pm

The Emergence of Emergence

Presented by Peter Skiff

Wednesday, November 20, 20137 pm

Olin, Room 102

In the last 20 years developments in science have rendered the dominant philosophy of science, so called “analytic philosophy, logical empiricism, or logical positivism”, obsolete and irrelevant. In physics discourses on such matters as anthropic principles and time reversal in cosmology, string theory and non-standard particle models in particle physics, non-Newtonian fluids, artificial atoms, symmetry breaking in condensed matter physics, and non- linear optics, are just a few areas where classical notions of causality, falsification, reduction, and “scientific method” simply cannot be applied.

Recent works, such as “Everything must Go,” Ladyman and Ross (Oxford, 2007), “Scientific Metaphysics,” ed. By Don Ross, et al (Oxford, 2013,), “Particle Metaphysics,” B. Falkenburg, (Springer, 2007), “Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics,” L. Sklar (Cambridge, 2013), The Emergence of Everything,” S. Moskowitz (Oxford, 2004), “The Trouble With Physics,” L. Smolin (Mariner, 2007), “More is Different,” P. Anderson (Science, 1972), and “How the Laws of Physics Lie,” N. Cartwright, Oxford, 1983) have examples of various suggestions as to how philosophy of science can “catch up” with modern scientific arguments. In the currently popular arguments of “emergence theory,” it is proposed the laws of physics appropriate to different statistical scales of systems are irreducible (e.g. from molecular and cellular considerations, or that new laws “emerge” as systems evolve to more complexity or to novel contexts, or that theories themselves must structurally evolve as they become more articulated (as in the evolution of modern quantum mechanics). This presentation will consider a few of these examples; hopefully suggesting that modern philosophy of science may rejoin contemporary humanities.

Bard Arboretum Walks with the Director

3rd Thursday of each month

Thursday, November 21, 20131–2 pm

LudlowJoin us for a leisurely stroll around the campus to explore some of the beautiful trees that make up our landscape. Arboretum Director, Amy Parrella, will talk about Bard's unique specimens, fall highlights and seasonal and staff favorites. Free and open to the public, Bard community and students. Look forward to seeing you out there! Rain or Shine. Call if any questions, 845-758-7179, Horticulture/Arboretum Office Meet at Ludlow, Main Campus Sponsored by: Landscape and Arboretum Program.

Random Sorting Networks

Thursday, November 21, 20134:40 pm

Hegeman 204A lecture by Zachary Hamaker '08

A sorting network is a way to reverse a list of numbers by swapping adjacent entries in the list using as few swaps as possible. We will discuss what a random sorting network looks like. To do so, we will highlight the role of simulation in mathematics, use combinatorial and probabilistic techniques and explore what it means to describe a random object. There will be open problems. There will be surprising conjectures. We will look at the best pictures. The target audience is all Bard students.

a lecture by Elliot Sperling

Thursday, November 21, 20135–6:30 pm

The Tibet Question has been discussed from many different angles: as an issue of religious freedom, human rights, cultural preservation, and so on. At the core, however, is a contested history that has provided fuel for quite divergent interpretations of Tibet’s relationship with China and indeed for the basic understanding of Tibet’s past. This talk will take up this contested history and discuss the ways different parties have brought the past into play as justification for actions and policies in the present.

Degree Recital: Scot Moore, violin

with Bálint Zsoldos, piano

Friday, November 22, 20135:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingScot Moore performs works by Beethoven, Kreisler, Poulenc and Ravel in fulfillment of his recital requirement for a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Poetry Reading by Robert Kelly

Friday, November 22, 20137 pm

Bard HallRobert Kelly, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature and codirector of the Written Arts Program at Bard, will give his annual reading of recent work, in honor of his wife's birthday.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

A concert series showcasing international young talents in performances and onstage Q&A. Now in its second season!

Saturday, November 23, 20137 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingJoin pianist Michael Bukhman with the wonderful mezzo-soprano Rebecca Ringle (Met Opera, New York City Opera) in the latest Play/Chat@Bard installment! Music by Mahler, Ives, Handel, Frazelle, and more! As always, we will sit and chat with Rebecca right after the concert, all questions welcome!

This event is free of charge.Sponsored by: Music Program; President's Office.

Piano Master Class, with Renowned Pianist/Bang on a Can All-Stars Cofounder Lisa Moore

Sunday, November 24, 20135:30 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingDescribed as “brilliant and searching ... beautiful and impassioned ... lustrous at the keyboard” by the New York Times, Lisa Moore’s playing combines music, theatre and expressive, emotional power—whether in the delivery of the simplest song, a solo recital or a fiendish chamber score. From 1992 to 2008, she was the founding pianist for the Bang On A Can All-Stars—the New York–based electro-acoustic sextet and winner of Musical America's 2005 Ensemble of the Year Award. Passionately dedicated to the music of our time as well as the great musical canon, she has collaborated with composers such as Elliot Carter, John Adams, Iannis Xenakis, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, Gerard Brophy, Julian Day, Elena Kats-Chernin, Thurston Moore, Martin Bresnick, Kate Moore, Steve Reich and Ornette Coleman.Sponsored by: Music Program.

Music of Rebecca Clarke, Lev Kogan, Johannes Brahms andMartin Bresnick, who will make a special guest appearance.

Martin Bresnick, Professor of Composition at Yale School of Music, will be in residence at Bard on Monday, Nov 25. He will present his music and talk with students in the composition seminar in the afternoon. At 7:30 pm in Bito, his clarinet trio will perform in the Bardian Ensemble’s faculty chamber music concert. For more information about his music: www.martinbresnick.com.Sponsored by: Music Program.

A Lunchtime Talk by Stefania Maffeis

Spaces of “Politics” – Aspects of Transnationality in Arendt's Thinking

Tuesday, November 26, 201312:30 pm

Arendt Center

The popularity of Hannah Arendt in the last two decades is a transnational phenomenon. Still, there are enormous disparities in the perception of her work. In Italy and France, Arendt is commonly read as a philosopher. In Germany, she is generally respected as a public intellectual, and her writings are almost unknown at universities. In the United States, despite the recurrent controversies, there is consistent academic Arendt scholarship, at least in political theory.

What do these differences reveal about the social conditions and practices through which ideas and theories are read, taught, written and performed? How can the relationship between theories and the context of their reception be understood? Is it just a matter of different interpretative situations of the same theories, or are we confronted with an immanent social and transnational dimension of theories, in this case of Arendt's thinking? What is this social dimension and how can it be analyzed?

This talk will present a long-term research project on the transnational circulation of ideas in the work and reception of Hannah Arendt between the US and Germany since the 1950s. To do so, it will engage aspects of transnationality in the making of an idea of 'politics’ in Arendt’s writings of the late 1940s and 1950s.